Hosea Ballou Quotes

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Hosea Ballou

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : April 30, 1771

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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Error is always more busy than truth.

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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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Hatred is self-punishment.

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There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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